Ecumenical Patriarch Tarasios

Ecumenical Patriarch Taraisos (740-18 February 806) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 784 to 806, succeeding Ecumenical Patriarch Pavlos IV and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Nikephoros I.

Biography
Taraisos was a layman when he was elected as Patriarch of Constantinople, and he discontinued the line of Iconoclasts that preceded him. His reign lasted 22 years, and it was during his reign that the Carolingian Empire of France moved into Central Europe, threatening Byzantine hegemony over Europe. In 801, the Carolingians became the Holy Roman Empire, forming a rival Roman successor state that was even more powerful.